RE: Linux 5.11-rc1

From: David Laight
Date: Sun Jan 03 2021 - 12:44:28 EST


From: Bernd Petrovitsch
> Sent: 02 January 2021 11:05
>
> On Sat, 2021-01-02 at 10:13 +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> [...]
> > To be honest I wondered why there were no more reports on this.
>
> Perhaps I'm not the only one who has /sbin and /usr/sbin in the
> $PATH of normal accounts too (and idk what's the default
> behaviour of distributions is - my .bashrc "fixes" the
> $PATH).

Yep, I've pretty much always added sbin to my non-root $PATH
for most of the last 30+ years.
Too much stuff that a 'techie' wants to run non-root is in there.

/usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/lib should have got removed once
disks got large enough that the boot disk (aka /) didn't overflow
required some system files be moved into the 'user' disk.
(The last disks that weren't really big enough were the 600MB ones.
The user's home directories could go into /usr where they belong.

David

-
Registered Address Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm, Milton Keynes, MK1 1PT, UK
Registration No: 1397386 (Wales)